[Techtalk] connecting a dumb terminal

Katie Bechtold katie at katie-and-rob.org
Wed Aug 7 21:17:52 EST 2002


On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 08:05:39AM +0100, hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk wrote:
> man agetty says, 
>        Depending  on how the program was configured, all diagnos-
>        tics are written to the console device or reported via the
>        syslog(3)  facility. 
> So: anything in there?

No new messages appear in /var/log/messages or at the console 
either when I type on the terminal's keyboard or when I do "telinit
q" or "echo "test" > /dev/ttyS1".

Hmmmph.
 
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Katie Bechtold
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